Download trojan on my laptop!

:-| Norton found this download trojan 11 times on my laptop and can't clean it even on safe mode... When I set up our new broadband connection at work I was horrified to get a porn links page popup instead of the ISP's home page... I've never gone to any porn sites or music download sites at work so i dunno where it came ffrom...

I'd appreciate any help you guys can offer. You've saved my posterior in the past with great patience and good humour, so can you help out again, please?

Ok, lets get started, first I will let you know that your Internet explorer is out of date. You can run Windows Update to fix this.

Next lets boot into safe mode, and configure windows to show hidden files/folders. to do that the the following.

1 Click the Start Button

2 In the Start menu click Control Panel

3 In the Control panel Window click the Folder Options Icon

4 The folder Options Window will now Open

5 Click the View Tab

6 In the view tab window look down the list for a section marked Hidden Files and Folders

7 Enable the option Show Hidden Files and Folders by left clicking the radio button on the

left of the option with your mouse. Then uncheck Hide protected operating system files.

CLick yes to the dialog.

8 Press the Apply button

9 On the next screen press OK to exit

10 You should now be able to view the hidden files and folders.

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1. If the computer is running, shut down Windows, and then turn off the power
2. Wait 30 seconds, and then turn the computer on.
3. When you see the black-and-white Starting Windows bar at the bottom of the screen, start

tapping the F8 key. The Windows 2000 Advanced Options Menu appears.
4. Ensure that the Safe mode option is selected. In most cases, it is the first item in the

list and is selected by default.
5. Press Enter. The computer then begins to start in Safe mode.

There was more stuff I found the other day before contacting International Rescue @ Daniweb (wierd folders called lots of numbers and letters full of web pages and jpegs for sites about celebrities that I never visited) I moved them all to a folder in My Documents as a kind of quarantine.

Ok, the ewido scan will knock more of it out :). Go ahead and do what it said as far as running this - http://www.cexx.org/lspfix.htm - and get spybot S & D (Link in my sig). Then be sure to post the log of ewido, and a new HJT log :).

Oh yea. ewido is a very nice program. To be perfectly honest with you I think norotn is a waste of money. To me your paying for something when there are ather programs that do a better job and are free (Ewido). Not to mention norton is a huge resource hog. If you want you should look into: